Cabbages and KingsDoubleday, Doran, 1904 - 266 pagine |
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Pagina 23
... Casa Morena the summer 66 White House " of the President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach the Broadway of Coralio — were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum ...
... Casa Morena the summer 66 White House " of the President of An- churia . On the principal street running along the beach the Broadway of Coralio — were the larger stores , the government bodega and post - office , the cuartel , the rum ...
Pagina 114
... Casa Morena . Here for a week he held informal sittings much as if he were a kind of unified grand jury and summoned before him all those whose testimony might illumine the financial tragedy that had accompanied the less mo- mentous one ...
... Casa Morena . Here for a week he held informal sittings much as if he were a kind of unified grand jury and summoned before him all those whose testimony might illumine the financial tragedy that had accompanied the less mo- mentous one ...
Pagina 116
... Casa Morena , and greeted his guest frankly and friendly . Then the two strolled , in the 116 Cabbages and Kings.
... Casa Morena , and greeted his guest frankly and friendly . Then the two strolled , in the 116 Cabbages and Kings.
Pagina 242
... Casa Morena for an informal interview . Keogh gripped his pipe tightly between his teeth . " Not a cent less than ten thousand , " he said to the artist " remember the price . And in gold or its equivalent - don't let him stick you with ...
... Casa Morena for an informal interview . Keogh gripped his pipe tightly between his teeth . " Not a cent less than ten thousand , " he said to the artist " remember the price . And in gold or its equivalent - don't let him stick you with ...
Pagina 244
... Casa Morena , although only one story in height , was a building of brown stone , luxurious as a palace in its interior . It stood on a low hill in a walled garden of splendid tropical flora at the upper edge of Coralio . The next day ...
... Casa Morena , although only one story in height , was a building of brown stone , luxurious as a palace in its interior . It stood on a low hill in a walled garden of splendid tropical flora at the upper edge of Coralio . The next day ...
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admiral aguardiente American Anchuria Atwood bananas beach Beelzebub Billy Keogh Blythe boat bottle captain Caribs Casa Morena chair cigar Clancy coast cocoanut Colonel Falcon consul cool Coralio crew Dalesburg Dicky dollars Don Sabas door drink El Nacional Estebán eyes face Felipe flag friends Geddie graft grass Gregg Guatemala hand head Hemstetter honour Johnny Johnny's Karlsefin lady land laughed looked Losada Madama Maloney Mellinger morning native never night Number Olivarra Orleans paint Pasa pesos phonograph picture President Miraflores president's republic Rosine sail sand says seemed Señor Goodwin señorita shoes shore sloop smile smoke Spanish Spanish Main steamer steps stood street tell there's thing thousand tintype took town trepanning tropics turned Twas valise Vega verree Vesuvius Wahrfield waiting walked White Winchester rifles yacht Zavalla
Brani popolari
Pagina 14 - His Nibs skedaddled yesterday per jack-rabbit line with all the coin in the kitty and the bundle of muslin he's spoony about. The boodle is six figures short. Our crowd in good shape, but we need the spondulicks. You collar it. The main guy and the dry goods are headed for the briny. You to know what to do. BOB.
Pagina 59 - The mountains reached up their bulky shoulders to receive the level gallop of Apollo's homing steeds, the day died in the lagoons and in the shadowed banana groves and in the mangrove swamps, where the great blue crabs were beginning to crawl to land for their nightly ramble. And it died, at last, upon the highest peaks. Then the brief twilight, ephemeral as the flight of a moth, came and went; the Southern Cross peeped with its topmost eye above a row of palms, and the fire-flies heralded with their...
Pagina 11 - CORALIO reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast. It was set like a little pearl in an emerald band. Behind it, and seeming almost to topple, imminent, above it, rose the sea-following range of the Cordilleras.